CAPT.FRANK W.BANTA

Towing Vessel · Built 2020s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named CAPT.FRANK W.BANTA

CAPT.FRANK W.BANTA is a 2020 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2020, most recently in December 2025, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2024.

Records from 2020 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 4 December 2025.

Built: 2020
Last inspected: 4 December 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2024

Identity

1309665

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WDL8581

1645493

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

368170890

Maury page id

psix-1645493

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations3

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2020–2025)

The 7 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Coast Guard record current through 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Towing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)76.0 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 162 / net 130

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderVERRET SHIPYARD INC · PLAQUEMINE, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2020

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portBATON ROUGE, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 18 November 2025 · expires 31 December 2026

Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel

Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it162 - Simplified, Gross Ton
130 - Simplified, Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 September 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

Radio station licence

WDL8581MMSI 368170890 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 21 November 2020, expires 21 November 2030

FCC Universal Licensing System ship-station file of 6 September 2026, matched to this hull on its US Official Number. Status and dates are the file’s own. The licensee is not read from the file and is not shown. A lapsed licence’s MMSI is still the number the vessel transmitted under while it was valid.

Inspection history · 7

4 December 2025 Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8277776

24 March 2025 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8098463

14 May 2024 Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7912536

14 May 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7913680

6 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7280933

26 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7147326

14 December 2020 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7111302

Deficiency record · 0

No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.

Casualty record · 1

14 May 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7913680

Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Ownership record

The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title, with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.